from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 13 Nov 13:57
https://lemmy.world/post/38740738
Andrej Babiš, the self-proclaimed “Trumpist” billionaire who won last month’s Czech election, has refused to sell his huge business empire, but insisted he will resolve a conflict of interest that threatens to bar him from becoming prime minister.
Babiš, whose ANO party finished a comfortable first in the October vote but failed to secure a majority in parliament, said in a social media post on Thursday he would not sell his Agrofert farming, food processing and chemicals conglomerate.
“I have repeatedly said I will never sell Agrofert. I have repeatedly said I will resolve the conflict of interest in accordance with Czech and European laws,” Babiš, whose net worth is estimated $3.9bn (£2.9bn), said. “This is not like selling a roll in a bakery.”
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I feel like we should make it a law that politicians can’t be billionaires.
Move all control of all business into a fully independent trust, or something. Maybe even one controlled in a different country if you’re really paranoid.
If you don’t want to give it up then don’t run, simple
Exactly
Just realized my post could be read wrong.
I meant that the above would be forced onto candidates as they sign up for an election.
Post Soviet Eastern European states are all like this.
We didn’t use to. There was some run-of-the-mill corruption but most perpetrators kept a low profile or got caught.
Come on, dude. Do you think Simeon II - the former Bulgarian Tsar - was elected to the Prime Ministership five years after returning from exile because he was just an incredibly popular guy? Do you think its a coincidence that his government’s policies of sweeping privatization had anything to do with his habit of stuffing his minister roles with the same kind of Chicago School ghouls that helped Augusta Pinochet and Juan Orlando Hernández and Dilma Rousseff loot Latin America?
Nevermind Orban on Hungary or Lech Kaczyński in Poland or… hell… Boris Yeltsin in Russia. Nothing says “we’re above board” like firing artillery rounds at your Parliament until you get your way.
There was a pogrom against opposition leadership that capped off the Cold War with a bloodbath of mafia violence orchestrated by foreign intelligence services. And then a few of the more naked fascists - your Milosevics and Mikheil Saakashvilis - got pulled down to prove the post-Soviet “Rules Based International Order” wasn’t total bullshit.
But the collapse of the old Soviet system unleashed all the worst excesses of capitalism on an utterly unprepared public. We’re seeing a fascist backlash in eastern europe as a direct response to the public revulsion at EU era over-exploitation.
I was talking about my country. Get Czech examples.
Don’t make our mistake. If he doesn’t sell, don’t let him run.
He is already elected.
Well…shit.
Pulled into the streets and executed then?
Just the shitty development I needed on my plate right now.
simple solution. Either he gives up his business interests or the election is declared null and void. Third option is that the people remind him what happens to tsars when soviets rise up.
Those are his only three options.
He is a trumpist so that means he’s pro corruption so this is what they voted for
Ballsack
Many old people will end up looking similar. He could pay millions for skin care or surgery but chooses not to.
Czech should take note of what is happening in the USA and just shoot him now and be done with it. He will only help himself. Billionaire’s can’t help it. The only thing they understand is them, and only them, getting ahead, and therefore, everyone else getting shafted.
There’s plenty of concealed carry licences in Czechia, the per capita number is closer to the US’s than EU’s. The party will not survive without him. However, gun owners here are pretty chill AFAIK.